Underrated 70s classic rock (excluding prog)
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Topic: Underrated 70s classic rock (excluding prog)
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Subject: Underrated 70s classic rock (excluding prog)
Date Posted: February 11 2018 at 20:15
| I know so much about/listen to 70s prog rock that I want to try music outside of the strict "prog" parameters, classic rock. I'm looking for classic rock songs that are underrated to the point where you will rarely, if ever, hear them on the radio. Also, I'm looking for only 70s (1969 and 1980-81 can be thrown in there too) songs, that have some aspect that can be called "proggy". Be it long duration, showy instrumental parts, or emotional, high-pitched vocals, I want a song that, to put it simply, is not mainstream... examples: "July Morning" - Uriah Heep, "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home" - Grand Funk Railroad |
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 00:10
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Wigwam: Losing Hold (well this is totally prog, but I believe you haven´t heard it anywhere). Janis Ian: She´s Made Of Porcelain Laura Nyro: Map to the Treasure Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Prodigal´s Return Nico: No One Is There Johnny Winter And: Nothing Left Mott the Hoople: Thunderbuck Ram Taste: Blister On the Moon Ten Years After: Let the sky fall Royals: More is What you give/get Here´s few of my favourite, somehow proggy songs from the seventies I don´t think will play in the radio.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 05:33
| anything by Robin Trower, maybe not high-pitched as such but great vocals from Jim Dewar. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 06:05
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Spooky Tooth (psych bluesrock), everyone knows Humble Pie, but almost no-one knows their sister-band Spooky Tooth, wich has some really great albums. Try Evil Woman, wich has some high pitched vocals. Al Stewart, everyone knows his period of Year of the Cat and Time Passages, but you should really try to get your hands on Orange, Modern Times, Love Chronicles, Past, Present and Future and Zero She Flies (all albums from 1969-1975), wich are almost prog-folk, featuring songs with Rick Wakeman, Jimmy Page, Gerry Conway, Fairport Convention. He has short folky songs but also larger 8 and 16-minute songs.
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 06:08
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 06:12
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Budgie Epitaph Moses Orang-Utan Trapeze Armaggedon (Germany) Mom's Apple Pie |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 07:44
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Spooky Tooth and Trapeze (as mentioned above) are two good choices for bands that did some longer tracks but didn't get much attention by the mainstream. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 08:03
| Spooky is great! Also their first album as Art! |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 08:47
Triumph falls into the category of "rarely heard on the radio" these days. At least in my area. Other may have different experiences. Triumph had some prog leanings. Some good examples from the 70s would be the songs, Blinding Light Show / Moonchild and Rock N Roll Machine ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
ClosetothSupperBrick wrote:Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 10:47
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I always thought that Wishbone Ash was the best non-prog-prog-band, but they are on the website (getting bashed for no apparent reason, except that they are not prog). But anyhow, a great band with lengthy tracks, except they have mediocre vocals sometimes. Fun fact: prog-bassplayers John Wetton and Trevor Bolder played in the Ash. ;)
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 10:54
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Spooky Tooth is even on this website. These are my ratings: It's All About: *** Spooky Two: **** Ceremony: **** The Last Puff: *** You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw: *** The Mirror: **** So the four star-albums are worth trying
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5316 |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 10:58
| ^I haven´t ever listened those two last albums, when you´ve given four stars into the Mirror, I think I should. Really like all the four first. What do you think their "Supernatural Fairy Tales" as Art? |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 12:09
Not sure what album it was on but Spooky Tooth did a fantastic cover of I Am the Walrus  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Rushman
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 13:30
| The Doobie Brothers - I Cheat The Hangman |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 14:32
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Big Star The Modern Lovers Suicide The Only Ones Pere Ubu Magazine Is any of the above "classic rock"?
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 14:44
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Pat Travers, Robin Trower, Budgie, April Wine, Triumph, Man, Crawler, Graeme Edge Band, Jo Jo Gunne, Lone Star etc...off the top of my head. Of course, I still consider Rory Gallagher the most underrated musician of all time, despite his loyal, cult following to this day! Should be up there in the top 5 in any guitarist polls - if talent rather than image won through! ✌️ ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 15:00
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One of my favorites...... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 15:08
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------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 17:53
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70s artist? Proggy? Sort of high-pitched vocals. No one would ever expect...the Spanish Inquisition! Or Neil Young. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 18:03
you are the man doc... read the OP's first post.. and Humble Pie was the first band that jumped to mind. Really quite hard to think of truly underrated and today largely forgotten 70's classic rock bands that truly deserve to not have such a fate. Humble Pie is first up IMO for that distinction. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 20:16
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^I thought of Humble Pie at first too but I wondered if they were underrated or not....all my friends at college '69-75' liked them but no one seems to mention them all these (40) years later...great band and the best work Frampton ever did. :) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Jzrk
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 20:21
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I would throw Blue Oyster Cults First 3 albums in there.Hard rock but with some threat instrumentals I put a vote in for Wishbone Ash too Live Dates Also a superstar band but if you haven’t heard Queens first album it’s a bit more rockier and raw |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 21:00
HAH!!!!! f**k YOU CAPCHA.. I saved it... exactly what made me think of them Doc. Who the hell plays.. much less mentions Humble Pie these days. Even Rory has a big fanclub... find me a group of more than 2 Humble Pie fans today. Good luck on that note.. and for many of the same reasons. 2nd place...a close one for many of the same reasons... good luck finding fans or ever hearing them on the radio.. and yet some of the best sh*t IMO to come out of the 70's classic rock scene  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:00
I quite like the Ten Years After album Rock & Roll Music to the World, and in particular the track Standing at the Station from the album. At 7:11 in length, it should appeal to any prog-lover. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:15
Or this from one of the most underrated live albums from the 70s, Recorded Live, 1973. Sixteen minutes of proggy, jazzy blues (with the middle ten minutes almost all one long lead): ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:42
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Date Posted: February 12 2018 at 22:45
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:25
One of my all time favorite albums. On this album, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton (I love him), Greg Ridley (Spooky Tooth) and Jerry Shirley all have their say.
So you have country, folk, blues, rock, boogie. It's the perfect 70's album, if you ask me. Sucking on the Sweet Vine is my all-time favorite song ever!  |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:27
| I love Humble Pie but I don't think they're underrated. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:35
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Nobody mentioned REO Speedwagon. Before the went all FM-Radio AOR pop-ballad, MOR, they were a hardrocking band. I'd even go as far to say they were borderline heavy metal in the seventies. Especially their double live album mid seventies is a treat! Maybe they were really, really great in the 70's aswell, but they are kind of forgotten, aren't they? Well I like their 70's output. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 02:37
| ^ again, not underrated at all. |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 03:46
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I'm looking for classic rock songs that are underrated to the point where you will rarely, if ever, hear them on the radio. This is what the guy of this thread is looking. I believe almost all mentioned here are not played in today´s radios.
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Posted By: sukmytoe
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 08:16
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Rare Earth comes to mind - Hey Big Brother, I know I'm losing you, Ma, I just want to celebrate. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:21
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Not sure how one defines underrated but if we are talking about air time one rarely hears James Gang on the radio and I listen to classic rock radio out of Chicago..... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:22
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No-one I ever spoke in my life about classic proggy rock, ever knew of this band called Home. Wich is kind of a crossbreed of Eagles, Wishbone Ash, Outlaws and Fleetwood Mac. In fact the guitarist of Home is Laurie Wisefield, who later played with Wishbone Ash and Tina Turner. The bassplayer is Cliff Williams who became famous with AC/DC. Starting in a porgrockband and ending in a basic-rock-band, but Chris Slade did the same. Wich means AC/DC is almost a progband, hahahaha. This great song is 9 minutes long and has lots of heavy bassguitar, lots of rhythmchanges, great guitarwork, some sort of mellotron in the middle section. Edit: I looked it up. They are on this website under Eclectic Prog (wich is nonsense), they sound like Wishbone Ash meets Outlaws. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:23
REO Speedwagon is overrated, especially their 80's output.
But when I let people hear their 70's output they are shocked to hear, how great they in fact are. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:28
is there a band he did NOT play in? he was in Mogul Trash, Uriah Heep, Family, King Crimson, U.K., Roxy Music, Asia, Wishbone Ash, Quango and Steve Hackett's live band, and he played as guest on other albums too -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 09:59
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Kingsnake..... I have The Alchemist by Home.....their last album from 73.....I like it....a lot of these bands from that time 70-73 get lumped into prog or (or even late proto prog) but they often aren;t that proggy at all.
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 10:44
He was never in Yes or Genesis, Bill Bruford beat him to that ;)
They call these kind of musicians, journeymen. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 10:53
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Anybody ever headr of Charlie? They had Nicko McBrain in the band, but never recorded anything with him, wich I'm glad of.
The leader of the band Terry Thomas, became a busy producer for eighties melodic rock (Tommy Shaw, Bad Company, Giant, Foreigner, etc.) Charlie played an american-styled melodic rock like The Eagles, but they were british (hence the accents). The failed to score hits, but I think they are underrated, because they have some really nice guitarwork, reminiscent to Triumph, Thin Lizzy and Wishbone Ash. |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 10:59
I like the subgenre Proto-prog (not really a genre, but I'm not nagging), because it pays hommage to a lot bands paving the way to progressive rock. Hence, a band like Home should be better filed under proto-prog or prog-related. But again, I'm not nagging, at least they are in the website, and they have a great end-score on their albums! |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 13:49
Have a couple of their albums ... Fantasy Girls is a great album to listen to. Later they had a small hit here on the West Coast ... and all in all, their first 3 or 4 albums are fairly good listens and very clean and well put together. It's a shame that by that time, it was all pre-fab and copies only, and original stuff was not being paid attention to ... I would not compare them to the Eagles ... at all ... that bomb'assed over grown and over done band ruined life for many other bands, around here, just like Fleetwood Mac did in those days! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 13:53
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^ maybe not Eagles, but at least some Outlaws (the guitar-duels and harmony vocals). Funny thing, in the plastic eighties, Terry Thomas managed to have a warm production to some albums. I love Ambition by Tommy Shaw. His best solo-album, and Terry Thomas co-wrote all the songs, played guitar, drums ans keyboards and produced the album. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: February 13 2018 at 16:22
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Jimi's other drummer, Buddy Miles. I saw him several times during the 70s and he always had a great, tight band. |
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 16 2018 at 18:47
Which specific song from Blue Öyster Cult's first 3 albums is the best? (besides "Astronomy", I already know that one) |
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 16 2018 at 18:52
What are the best 70s REO songs, in your opinion? |
Posted By: ClosetothSupperBrick
Date Posted: February 16 2018 at 18:59
Are there good "starting point" songs for these bands, and if so, I would appreciate you naming them. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 16 2018 at 19:39
Wetton kicked ass in Heep, too! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 16 2018 at 23:47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLMgIR69G4
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 02:18
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This is actually on PA under heavy prog, though IMO it's not really progressive: I find it pretty groovy. Not so much underrated as little known. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 02:24
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How about this slice of obscure brilliance: Again this is more under-heard than underrated I think. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 02:28
Bad Motor Scooter is one of the funnest tracks ever! ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 03:07
At least Riding the Storm out and Wild Turkey Trot (out of my head)
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 04:59
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The Savage Rose was the first band I thought of. Best female vocals in rock...ever. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 05:09
| ^ nah, Inga from Atlantis and Frumpy is so much better :) |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:07
Those three albums are all masterpieces, but if I had to choose my favourite song, I'd go for this one: |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:11
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good God girlfriend... favorite BOC song.. that is like asking if one prefers blonds, brunettes, or redheads. hey they all rule.. in their own ways.. but if one was to put a gun to my head and ask me favorite from the first three.. IT has to be this.. in fact might have to 86 Can and put this on.. in ALL of its high octane, ear shattering decibel level glory... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 06:22
Don't get me wrong, I love Inga as well (although I genuinely believed she was a man the first couple of years I owned Frumpy 2), Annisette is just in another league altogether imo. She gives me goosebumps, Inga does not. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:02
That debut album rocked - Rock the Nation, Space Station No. 5, Rock Candy, along with Bad Motor Scooter. On the underrated side is Ronnie Montrose's other band, Gamma. Though didn't rock like Montrose did, had some solid arena rockers in the late 70s/early 80s - Mean Streak, I'm Alive, Fight to the Finish, Thunder and Lightening, and Voyager are some tracks I recall. The last one had a bluesy, Robin Trower feel to it. Lead singer Davey Pattison later sang for Trower in the late 80s.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 07:21
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ummm hmmm... a good many smart people have Montrose's debut album tagged as one of the best of the 70's and thus with the best of the heavy hitters of the era. I'd tend to agree.... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 12:35
Not only are the first two Montrose albums (with Sammy as singer) time-tested classics, they're essentially the template for Van Halen's sound. Ronnie's tone was fantastic, too. The final song on Montrose, called "Make It Last," alone puts them several notches over most other '70s hard rock bands. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 12:42
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UFO. Their debut album is quite good, and their second album is superb. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 12:44
Gamma's first two albums (they're all titled numerically, —1, 2, 3, 4) are superb. They're somewhere in the grey area between heavy rock and symphonic rock. They wouldn't be the same without Jim Alcivar's synths (check out his solo on "Skin and Bone"). Some of Ronnie's best playing is on those first two records, too. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 13:06
Montrose's debut is great! The first three songs "Rock the Nation", Bad Motor Scooter" and Space Station #5" are like licking light sockets. Better than anything Van Halen ever did. Also a mention for Nazareth's Hair of the Dog". I remember everyone walking around school shrieking "Now you're messing with a son of a bitch!" ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 13:15
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Big Star I like every band on this page...so far.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 17 2018 at 20:11
I'm actually curious if there's any X-rated 70s classic rock  Maybe bands like Bang, Budgie, Sir Lord Baltimore? More popular today than at the time i believe -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 01:22
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Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 01:24
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 03:29
There was a lot of x-rated prog in the 70s. John L. of Ash Ra Tempel appearing nude and with painted penis on stage and letting himself be whipped. Limpe Fuchs of Anima-Sound dancing like mad around her various percussion instruments, banging away on them in the nude with body and face painted black (but red lips). Hawkwind with the larger-than-life primal Goddess Stacia dancing nude and with painted body (and of course the Hawkwind song "Kiss of the Velvet Whip", also known as "Sweet Mistress of Pain"). And that's just the tip of the iceberg. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 07:32
Wow! I was born to late. I missed all the good stuff ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 07:48
| ^Sperm was the theatre & music collective in Finland who caused a lots of offence in the end of sixties. Often their shows were interrupted by the police. They were acting coitus and also showed porno films. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 08:16
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^ I wouldn't call Sperm rock though. Unless they had rock in their live shows not present on their albums. They were more of a stream of consciousness noise outfit in the vein of AMM. Very cool though. I've actually reviewed their albums here :) ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 18 2018 at 13:44
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Hmmm....some of the band suggestions have strayed from what I consider to be classic rock of the 70's......at any rate since we are naming bands the following two are from the early 70's.....and are what I think to be rock.....classic or otherwise. They also get included on prog web sites like PA but imho there's nothing particularly proggy about either band. Steamhammer Gravy Train ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 19 2018 at 01:35
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